The Campaign For DA

3.06.2009

. . . about NPR's This American Life and its programs on the financial crisis. Lifehacker.com, one of the greatest sites on the Internets, plugs the program today as well. It's a long weekend, give it a shot.

8:11 pm - your logic is exactly why people are so ignorant about the economic situation.

I have listened to the program and GW Bush is not mentioned once. This not a political program. It is a program to navigate through the complex global economic crisis in a way that non-wall-street people can understand.

Limiting yourself to only right wing approved information, leaves you woefully ill informed. Right wing propaganda is not educational, it aims only to distort truth persuade you to blame their opponents.

So let's see if I understand. Obama is giving the banks all this bailout money so that they will lend more. But, according to these banking experts, lending more money will exacerbate the problem and possibly cause the banks to fail.

You know, people keep "laughing this crisis off" as though it is really not REAL. We poke fun, are flippant about our stock losses and job losses. Like we are in a nightmare, but will wake up soon and all will be as it was before we slept. WAKE UP!! We are in a depression, people are losing jobs, retirement income, homes, etc...and we can STILL poke FUN???? Pull your heads out of the sand! Pay attention and start providing some solutions to this mess. Gripers are only more of the problem... we are America and we need to pull together and get ourselves OUT OF THIS MESS! Post your ideas!

A crisis is a terrible thing to waste. We can make people think that only the government can solve this and by doing so we can ram through nationalize health care and all of our pork projects and whenever we do it will be too late to reverse it and voila, SOCIALISM has been achieved. America is addicted to kool aid. Will the last person leaving America please turn out the lights.

The voters made their bed and now they can sleep in it. I know I can survive. I don't know if this country can survive Obama. I know poverty and am not afraid of it. It is not what I wanted for my children. A hard rain is falling.

9:46 It is time for action. My action yesterday was to send emails to Nancy Pelosi regarding e-verify. It will expire if Congress fails to act. In the Stimulus legislation, employers cannot verify legal status or they will not get the contracts under the bill at a time citizens need jobs.

In California people are living in tent city waiting to get any kind of job!

Flood congress with phone calls, emails, letters to tell them how angry we are. They will respond to the people if they want to get re-elected.

Be specific and focus on an issue or two. We will all be living in tent cities without electricity if we don't stand up and get involved.

This American Life is great. Did you know there is a video version on Showtime? It won an Emmy this year and is just as good as the radio version. You can purchase and download from iTunes. Check it out.

What is interesting to me is that in a recent interview Obama said, "I don’t think that people should be fearful about our future. I don’t think that people should suddenly mistrust all of our financial institutions.” Yet hasn't first candidate Obama, then President Obama, spent the entire last year creating fear for the future and mistrust of financial institutions? This brings to mind Obama Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel's comment "You never want to let a crisis got to waste. It's an opportunity to do things you didn't think you could do before."

That sort of sheds light on Obama's conflicting positions on the economy, doesn't it? a) Create and exaggerate a crisis, then b) Use the crisis to implement a radical ideologically-driven political agenda. Does that scenario fit what Obama has done?

I kind of get the feeling that I'm not alone when I say that the guy that thinks 12 21 2012 is the end of the world is wrong. It's probably sooner. If not, I see another American Revolution in the near future. Stock up on ammo. Think of it as an opportunity(to overthrow socialism)